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The Commonwealth Bank has looked to its New Zealand subsidiary, ASB Bank, for its new head of International Financial Services (IFS)....

Financial planning

Challenger International has gone a recruitment spree, luring industry notables Jamie Kelly away from a 12 year career with Mercantile Mutual and Sharon Knightley from tw...

Financial planning

Permanent has signed up with ISPT, the trustee of the Industry Superannuation Property Trust, to provide back office functions....

People & Products

Very few of Colonial’s senior management have survived the post-merger shake-out by Commonwealth Bank....

Financial planning

Trustee group Permanent has been signed with ISPT, the trustee of the Industry Superannuation Property Trust No.1, to provide back office functions for the super group....

Financial planning

It took 12 years and a lot of persuading – but Jamie Kelly, one of the faces of Mercantile Mutual, has switched camps....

Financial planning

Banks will dominate distribution of financial services in the future due to their massive customer bases and strong brand awareness Westpac financial planning general ma...

Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank managing director David Murray has called on the government to raise compulsory superannuation payments....

Financial planning

Ipac has developed a business model to help its planners and strategic partners service the wealth accumulator market....

Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank will officially takeover Colonial on June 13 and a shake-up of senior Colonial management is expected the following day....

Financial planning

Colonial boss Peter Smedley has been named chairman of BHP's long products business, to be called OneSteel....

Financial planning

Merrill Lynch and HSBC have set up a joint venture to create a global online banking and in-vestment services company....

Financial planning

Colonial has finally offloaded its United Kingdom life insurance and pensions business to Swiss insurance group Winterthur for $891 million....

Financial planning

National Australia and the Commonwealth will soon own one-fifth of the financial planning industry....

Financial planning

The proposed takeover of Colonial by the Commonwealth Bank will cost $447 million and lead to cost savings of up to $300 million per year, according to the scheme of arra...

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